Connecticut western news., 1887-09-14
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

Mrs Langtry is the daughter of a country parson.
 Senator Hawley arrived home from Europe last Sunday.
 It is the skirt of lady's ball dress | that costs. The corsas,e doesn't come | high. .
 Richard L. Chadwick, postmaster at | South Lyme, has held that position for forty eight years.
 The oldest general of the United States Army is William Selby Harney. | He entered the army in 1918.
 The sexton of Willimantic cemetery has been fined for neglecting to bury bodies at the depth required by law.
 0. Collard Adams will commence a democratic Sunday paper in Hartford September IS, to be called the Gazette.
 Tending bar for hotel in Ia temper ance town is business as quiet as clerking it for a man who does not advertise.
 Congressman John T. Wait was 76 years old August 27, and has been for 51 years member of the Norwich Bar association.
 A branch of the Connecticut Indian association has been organized at Litch- field by ladies interested in missionary work among the red men.
 Twenty brakemen on the Housatonic road have petitioned for division of the Brotherhood of Brakemen, to be established in Bridgeport.
 The Greenwoods Co.,, of New Hart ford, gave their employees their annual excursion Saturday, Sept 3. This year the trip was to Fishers Island Sound.
 After prolonged controversy wheth- CT to repair or demolish the old State House in New Haven, it has been deci- ded to expend S25,O ,OO0 in repairing it.
 It is said that 5000 Boston servant girls carry books or music rolls on the streets when they go out, thinking thus to deceive the people as to their occu- pation.- Tribune.
 Mrs Ella Wheeler Wilcox having finally settled somewhere and Mrs Rose Terry Cooke somewhere else, let us all press forward with new courage and hope. - [Danbury News.
 Nature is bound to keep up the aver age. When she makes man who can accumulate fortune, she usually pro- duces family of spendthrifts to squan- der 1t.
 A tomb stone engraved by Floyd Morehouse. which has been placed in Q cemetery in this town, bears under heath the regular inscription the words: "The best housekeeper who ever came from Ireland. "- New Milford Gazette.
 Col Stevenson informs us that one of the next bridges to be rebuilt on the Housaronic railroad, is the long wooden roofed blidge over the Housatonic river at New Milford, which is to be replaced with an iron structure. II Nor walk Gazette.
 Col T. J. Jones, of Montgomery, Ala, commanding the 2d Alabama regiment, has sent to the governor of Connecticut the battle flag of the 18th Connecticut regiment taken at Plymouth, N. O., in 1864. The flag was mislaid after the war and only lately discovered.
 The heaviest locomotive in the world weighs 16O,O pounds and is on the Canadian Pacific. The next heaviest is the Southern Pacific's, 154, ,0O0 pounds the third weighs 145,00 pounds and is on the Northern Pacific, and Brazil owns the fourth, weighing 4,OOO pounds.
 Any young man who smokes ciga- rettes is debarred from admission to l either Naval or Military Academies, and yet 1,20O, 100000 cigarettes were consumed in this country last year. ! Their effect on the rising generation is injurious enough to justify move } ment to repress the evil. Who is to : start it.-[ New York Tribune.
 A violent thunder storm accompanied by cyclone, struck the town of Bark hamsted about 5 o'clock last Wednesday afternoon. The path of the cyclone , was about 20 rods wide, and large trees were torn up. A shed belonging to Mir Root was demolished. The house of
 Mrs Laura Langdon was entirely de- stroyed. Mrs Langdon saw the cyclone coming and fled to the house of a l Cusick was demolished, and the shing- r mostly torn off and fruit trees, fences and valuable property in the vicinity were destroyed. l \ newspaper in neighboring state recently brought suit against 43 men F who would not pay their subscriptions [ and obtained judgment in each case for full amount of each claim. Of these l 3S made affidavit that they owned no more property than the law allowed them, thus preventing an attachment Then under decision of the supreme court they were arrested for petit , larceny and bound over in the sum of $2OO each All but six gave bonds, these went to jail. The new postal law makes it petit larceny to take Q news paper and refuse to pay for it. .-[ Whist